Author: paul
Date: 2006-04-23 15:36:41 +0200 (Sun, 23 Apr 2006)
New Revision: 1907
Log:
r9645@frost: paul | 2006-04-23 08:35:09 -0500
Add 5.0.20a release note items.
Modified:
trunk/
trunk/refman-common/news-5.0.xml
Property changes on: trunk
___________________________________________________________________
Name: svk:merge
- 4767c598-dc10-0410-bea0-d01b485662eb:/mysqldoc-local/mysqldoc/trunk:6823
b5ec3a16-e900-0410-9ad2-d183a3acac99:/mysqldoc-local/mysqldoc/trunk:9639
bf112a9c-6c03-0410-a055-ad865cd57414:/mysqldoc-local/mysqldoc/trunk:4590
+ 4767c598-dc10-0410-bea0-d01b485662eb:/mysqldoc-local/mysqldoc/trunk:6823
b5ec3a16-e900-0410-9ad2-d183a3acac99:/mysqldoc-local/mysqldoc/trunk:9645
bf112a9c-6c03-0410-a055-ad865cd57414:/mysqldoc-local/mysqldoc/trunk:4590
Modified: trunk/refman-common/news-5.0.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/refman-common/news-5.0.xml 2006-04-23 09:52:01 UTC (rev 1906)
+++ trunk/refman-common/news-5.0.xml 2006-04-23 13:36:41 UTC (rev 1907)
@@ -206,21 +206,21 @@
all configured data nodes first. (Bug #18606)
</para>
</listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <literal>NDB Cluster</literal>: It is now possible to install
- MySQL with Cluster support to a non-default location and
- change the search path for font description files using
- either the <option>--basedir</option> or
- <option>--character-sets-dir</option> options. (Previously
- in MySQL 5.0, <command>ndbd</command> searched only the
- default path for character sets.)
- </para>
- </listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
+ <literal>NDB Cluster</literal>: It is now possible to install
+ MySQL with Cluster support to a non-default location and
+ change the search path for font description files using either
+ the <option>--basedir</option> or
+ <option>--character-sets-dir</option> options. (Previously in
+ MySQL 5.0, <command>ndbd</command> searched only the default
+ path for character sets.)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
In result set metadata, the
<literal>MYSQL_FIELD.length</literal> value for
<literal>BIT</literal> columns now is reported in number of
@@ -245,15 +245,15 @@
</para>
<itemizedlist>
-
+
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>NDB Cluster</literal>: When attempting to create an
- index on a <literal>BIT</literal> or
- <literal>BLOB</literal> column, <errortext>Error 743:
- Unsupported character set in table or index</errortext> was
- returned instead of <errortext>Error 906: Unsupported
- attribute type in index</errortext>.
+ index on a <literal>BIT</literal> or <literal>BLOB</literal>
+ column, <errortext>Error 743: Unsupported character set in
+ table or index</errortext> was returned instead of
+ <errortext>Error 906: Unsupported attribute type in
+ index</errortext>.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -572,49 +572,76 @@
<para role="release-level">
This is a bugfix release for the current production release
- family.
+ family. It replaces MySQL 5.0.20.
</para>
- <para role="release-special-announcement">
- <remark>
- 5. REMOVE WHOLE PARAGRAPH IF THERE IS NOTHING SPECIAL TO
- ANNOUNCE.
- </remark>
- </para>
-
<para>
- This section documents all changes and bug fixes that have been
- applied since the last official MySQL release. If you would like
- to receive more fine-grained and personalised <emphasis>update
- alerts</emphasis> about fixes that are relevant to the version and
- features you use, please consider subscribing to <emphasis>MySQL
- Network</emphasis> (a commercial MySQL offering). For more details
- please see
- <ulink url="http://www.mysql.com/network/advisors.html"/>.
+ Changes from 5.0.20 to 5.0.20a:
</para>
- <para>
- Functionality added or changed:
- </para>
-
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <para></para>
+ <para>
+ The fix for <quote>Command line options are ignored for mysql
+ client</quote> (Bug #16855) has been revoked because it
+ introduced an incompatible change in the way the
+ <command>mysql</command> command-line client selects the
+ server to connect to. In the worst case, this might have led
+ to a client issuing commands to a server for which they were
+ not intended, and this must not happen. To help all users in
+ understanding this subject,
+ <xref linkend=" invoking-programs"/> now includes additional
+ explanation of how command options with regard to host
+ selection.
+ </para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The code of the <literal>yaSSL</literal> library has been
+ improved to avoid the dependency on a C++ runtime library, so
+ a link with pure C applications is now possible on additional
+ (but not yet all) platforms. We are working on fixing the
+ remaining issues.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
</itemizedlist>
<para>
- Bugs fixed:
+ Additional information about SSL support:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <para></para>
+ <para>
+ With version 5.0.20a, SSL support is contained in all binaries
+ for all Unix (including Linux) and Windows platforms except
+ AIX, HP-UX, OpenServer 6, and the RPMs specific for
+ RHAS3/RHAS4/SLES9 on Itanium CPUs (<literal>ia64</literal>);
+ It is also not contained in those for Novell Netware. We are
+ trying to add these platforms in future versions.
+ </para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Please note that the original 5.0.20 announcement included
+ inexact wording: SSL support is <quote>included</quote> in
+ both server and client, but by default not
+ <quote>enabled</quote>. SSL can be enabled by passing the
+ SSL-related options (<option>--ssl</option>,
+ <option>--ssl-key=...</option>,
+ <option>--ssl-cert=...</option>,
+ <option>--ssl-ca=...</option>) when starting the server and
+ the client or by specifying these options in an option file.
+ For more information, see
+ <xref linkend="secure-connections"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
</itemizedlist>
</section>
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